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When in France I note that the only English language papers available in the more rural areas are The Daily Mail and The Daily Express. I presume they like to sit in their houses abroad and read all about how immigrants are ruining Britain.

Quite a few upper-middle class retirees move to southern France to live off their pensions, or at least they used to. The kind who read the mail and express whilst consuming just over a bottle a day of wine.

The liver might have a problem with a bit more than a bottle per person! Nothing wrong with two glasses or so a day though. Was a mild jab at the functional alcoholism common in some people at that age.

Daily Mail readers have always been a conundrum for me.
They hate this country because it's "going to shit" and they hate all the immigrants. And so because of that, they want to emigrate to somewhere else. And become immigrants. In a country full of foreign people who they all already hate.

It's usually Australia. Those types tend to fit in well over there. I'd say Australia has been pretty good in that regard. Maybe the US too. Tons of the religious or racist types have historically fled to those two new lands to go and kill others and be a twat. It's not as extreme these days but it still sort of holds true.

edit: And probably South Africa. At least until apartheid was abolished.

You need to point out that the UK is one of the ten richest countries in the world. If they think it's broke then they clearly have no concept how the rest of the planet lives.

The Daily Hate's delusions about this were most apparent recently when they led the chorus about how we should cut foreign aid in order to fix flooding defences. So I suppose it's no wonder their readers are clueless.

The UK's problem is more to do with how the wealth is divided and spent, not on how much it has. But don't expect to be reading about that any time soon in the Daily Mail.

I beg to differ, I have lived in Sweden for 13 years, fluent in the language, and the customs, I even hold a Swedish nationality now. It is not better just different. There is a collapsed school and medical system, extreme pressure from immigration at levels much higher than the UK, the weather is worse than the UK, and there are a raft of other problems. I wouldn't say it's worse, it is about the same (based on my own preferences) so don't let the reddit groupthink convince on this one.

Last time I was in Stockholm a pint cost well over a fiver and my friends told me the tax rate is over 50%. And they could not live there in a little British commune in the Sun. Cant see the average daily mail reader getting along with that.

I read something the other day about Brits emigrating to Romania and Bulgaria. For the price of a small broom cupboard in central London you can buy a small farm and set yourself up for the good life. It's quite tempting to be honest

I've been living in Vancouver, Canada for a year now, it does have many advantages over the UK such as quality of life, pay, scenery etc. But there are some downsides, a few things are backwards and hard to get used to compared to the UK: Paying for banking, extortionate mobile phone contracts, having to add tax to the prices listed on items, having to deal with tax returns (It's not as simple as PAYE back home), can't just go into a supermarket/cornershop and buy some booze, pitiful vacation/sick day allowances etc.

It's not all rainbows and unicorn farts but it's one of the better places to live :)